Maybe you’ve heard you have to wake up at 4:30 am, take an ice-cold shower, and then knock out 15 specific rituals before you get started on your business day.

Or that you should wear some sort of uniform every day, and eat the exact same thing for breakfast and lunch every day – but productivity means you can live a little at dinner.

Or that productivity means working 14 hour days and cramming 75,000 things into every hour. Alternatively, that productivity means delegating every single task out to someone who will do it cheaply so you only need to work 4 hours a week.

Instead, find out what productivity really means and what it really requires. All productivity Injection programs are based on neuroscience, and not just because JJ is a giant nerd when it comes to brains. Learning to work with your brain instead of against it is the single biggest productivity boost you can make, because it all starts in the brain.

Hi, I’m JJ. If you’re a Gen X woman, then you probably understand why I go by JJ instead of Jennifer without me telling you! I help business owners, especially women, achieve better life balance by working smarter - so you have time to enjoy friends, family, pets, hobbies, and other fun non-work activities.

I’m on a mission to destroy hustle-and-grind and being controlled by technology. Life is better when you put tech in its proper place – as a tool – and learn to be effective instead of just busy.

I received my bachelor's degree in Physics at Rutgers University and later took my MBA in Finance  at New York University. I had a very nonlinear journey during my 20 years in corporate America, though most of it was related to finance. 

I’ve been an analyst in a private bank, a safety consultant, a customer relationship manager for a mutual fund consulting firm, and a trainer for a fixed income software firm.

The last decade or so in corporate America I spent working for a variety of financial planning firms. What led me to neuroscience was a simple question that came up over and over: why didn’t our clients implement our recommendations?

The suggestions we made were logical, rational answers to their problems, and clients would agree to them during the planning meeting. Yet when we followed up later, no action had been taken.

Behavioral finance is the key to this puzzle, but what’s the key to behavioral finance?

Turns out (as I discovered through all my research), it’s the same thing that drives productivity: the brain. As I learned more and more about how the brain works, I found out why I had almost always been able to get more work done than my colleagues. I have always worked the way the brain wants to work, though I didn’t know it at the time.

I burned out in financial planning working for other people. So yes, if you feel like you’re headed in that direction, I have been there myself! My research into the human brain coincided with my decision about five years ago to launch my own business.

And voila – Productivity Injection!

Additional cred:

·        Six Sigma Green Belt

·        Professional speaker at dozens of webinars, in-person organizational events, podcasts, conferences, and educational institutions

·        Published author with books [AMZ link], professional journals, and other publications

·        Former National Association of Professional Women chapter president, Women Leaders Forum president, and positions on a variety of volunteer boards of directors